The Rise Of The Machines: Artificial Intelligence In Iceland

Published November 11, 2016Kristinn R. Thórisson is a professor of computer science at the University of Iceland. He is also the founding Director of the Icelandic Institute for Intelligent Machines (IIIM), and has been working on the bleeding edge of this industry for three decades. We sat with Kristinn amid a sea of computers to talk about what artificial intelligence is, where it’s heading, and the implications it holds for the rest of us humans. What were the beginnings of the IIIM?In 2004 and 2005, we laid the groundwork for the artificial intelligence lab at the University of Reykjavík. This brought forth the Centre for Analysis and Design of Intelligent Agents (CADIA), which is now in its eleventh year. It’s a university research lab, so it works mostly on basic…